www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/does-testosterone-give-trans-women-sporting-advantage-yes-does/
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A lecturer and co-director of undergraduate studies at the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, Hooven, 55, not only earned her PhD at Harvard studying sex differences and testosterone, but has now written a book, Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us, in which she devotes chapters to the matter of transgender athletes.
I won’t comment on whether it’s fair,” she says, “but I can comment on whether trans women, who have experienced male puberty, would have an advantage, on average, in most sports over natal females: yes they do.”
“I felt a lot of anxiety [in writing it] because it’s obviously controversial, but I’m somebody who doesn’t like a bully, and I like science, so I felt emboldened to stand up for what I believe in,” she says, speaking over Zoom from her home in Massachusetts.
A lot of people talking online about gender issues, she thinks, “are getting confused. Social justice issues are getting twisted into the science, and it’s driven by fundamental misunderstandings. It’s dangerous: if you hang your agendas on dubious science, you’re going to be in trouble if the facts turn out not to support your agenda.”
She also says she refuses to use language like “sex assigned at birth” or “cisgender”.